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Distributed computing team?

Hi all,

We all have pretty highly spec'ed PCs, and some of us seem to have more than one! I was wondering if you guys would be willing to start up a HwC team? I'll list some projects to choose from. If anyone has any other ideas, I'll add them to the poll.

ClimatePrediction - Climateprediction.net is the largest experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century. To do this, we need people around the world to give us time on their computers - time when they have their computers switched on, but are not using them to their full capacity.

Folding@Home - What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

Seti@Home - SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
________________________________________________________________________Update 21/02/05:

We have chosen Folding@Home!

To join the team, you must do the following:

Go to the Folding at home website and download the Folding@Home application*.

Install the application.

Enter your HwC alias as your user name (you don't need to register)

In team number, type 34878 to join the HardwareCentral team.

Then press enter to set the next few items to the defaults.

You are now Folding!

*The text-only client is much quicker than the GUI client. I therefore recommend you use the text-only application! To download the Windows version, click here:

We used to have a seti team if I remember right. Even a forum for it too. What makes you think this one will last any longer? I am not giving up any time to help thoses loonies who are worried about the climate or alien signals. The folders have no idea what they are really doing. They are probably coming up with some new way to mutate the human race for all they know.

I'm up for climate prediction, but I'll have to see how my computer holds up to passive cooling first. I finally bought an Antec Phantom PSU and I'm gonna slap a ThermalTake Sonic Tower on my Athlon XP (I hope it stays at a reasonable temperature!). That's the entire system fanless. I'm gonna cut two holes in the top of the thing to let the convection currents do the work. Lets hope that's enough - wish me luck for tomorrow